Data viz plug: Bat first or bowl? The choices teams make in Test cricket

[Shijith Kunhitty]

So I've created a data viz on Test cricket for wionews.com.

It uses data from 26 years of Test matches to find out what teams do after the toss.

Where do teams like to bat first? Are there countries where teams decide to bowl first instead? And have toss tactics changed over the years?

Used graph-scroll.js and D3 to make the interactive. The github repo is here and the ipython notebook I used to analyse the data is here.

If you love cricket, as I'm sure many of you do, you'll love going through this. Do have a look! :)